Christian Müller (footballer born 1938)

Christian Müller ( born August 29, 1938) is a former German football player, who won in 1962 and 1964 with the 1st FC Cologne twice the German soccer championship.

Career

1 FC Köln, until 1966

He came along with his cousin Christian Breuer 1958 by SC Fliesteden 1 FC Cologne, where he became one of the most prolific strikers in the 1960s. Müller had undergone a three year commercial administration in Cologne and attracted attention in the youth national teams of the Middle Rhine. From the round of 1959/60 he was a member of the regular cast of the 1st FC Cologne in the Football Oberliga West. On the opening day he made his debut on 23 August 1959 the 2:3 defeat at Duisburg SpV in the big leagues. After the seventh match, 11 October 1959, the new center-forward of " Billy Goats " 04 had scored two goals in the 5-1 away win at Schalke, were for him already 9 Results for beech. Together with Jürgen Schütz Borussia Dortmund, he led the scorers in the West. At the round end he could celebrate with his teammates the championship, had scored in 28 league games 28 hits and was drafted with the 1st FC Cologne in the final of the German Championship in 1960 in the final. Against group opponents Werder Bremen, Tasmania 1900 Berlin and FK Pirmasens he had made ​​further six goals. The final was lost on 25 June 1960 in Frankfurt am Main against Hamburger SV 2:3 gates. In the 86th minute, Christian Müller was able to compensate for the interim lead 2-1 of HSV. Together with Helmut Rahn (11) and Hans Schäfer ( 16) he had provided for the gates of Cologne in his debut season in the football league. The fast, powerful shot and aerially strong attacker - he castled on the wing - won with Cologne from 1960 to 1963 four times in a row the championship in the Oberliga West. In 112 league games he scored 82 goals for the team of President Franz Kremer.

When he had again defended with his teammates in the 1961/62 season with the record of 89:40 outside the championship in the West, he moved to the shortened because of the World Cup in Chile finals with three wins against Eintracht Frankfurt, Hamburger SV and the FK Pirmasens again in the final of the German Cup. On May 12, 1962, the final was held in Berlin in front of 82,000 spectators against the defending 1st FC Nuremberg. The Cologne offensive with Karl -Heinz Thielen, Ernst -Günter Habig, Christian Müller, Hans Schäfer and Christian Breuer was clearly superior to the Francs and brought them to a 4-0 success the first German Championship in Cologne. In the last year of the old top leagues in 1962 /63 Muller lost the final of the German Cup against the West Vice Borussia Dortmund on June 29, 1963 in Stuttgart with 1:3 goals. In the league round of Cologne had with Striker Müller both matches against the Westphalia - 3:2 and 2:1 - to decide for themselves and the striker had put in the final round in the group with nine hits his goalscoring impressively demonstrated. But he could with sudden groin problems in the final cease to accrue and lacked the favorite team of coach Zlatko Čajkovski noticeable.

As in the season 1963/64, the Bundesliga resumed their program, Müller was also by its activity on 24 August 1963 as a center forward of the 1st FC Cologne 2-0 Home Win at the 1 FC Saarbrücken the protagonists of the debut day of the League of. In 43 minutes he scored the 2-0 final result of the team of coach Georg Knöpfle. Cologne won by six points the first championship in the Bundesliga. Müller had scored 15 goals in 22 games. Other outstanding protecting the eleven champions were Karl -Heinz Thielen (16 ), Hans Storm] (13) and captain Hans Schaefer with 12 hits. The man from Fliesteden built 1964/65 his batting average in the league to 19 goals, but Cologne could not defend the title. Behind Werder Bremen Cologne landed three points behind in second place. In the third year Bundesliga - 1965/66 - the first time without the long-standing player personality Hans Schaefer, Cologne slipped to fifth place in the table. Müller had scored 12 goals in 23 games again and was behind Hannes Löhr (18 ) second- best scorer of Cologne. After an internal dispute with the Bureau and, as a result of a multi-week lock in the preliminary round, the disgruntled striker accepted the offer of Karlsruher SC at the Round 1966/67, and moved from Cologne to Baden. From 1963 to 1966, he had scored 46 goals for Cologne in the Bundesliga in 69 games. International Christian Müller had opened in the Round 1960/61, in MesseCup in the city of Cologne selection against Olympique Lyon and AS Roma. In the Master 1962/63 competition, he scored in a 4-0 home win on September 26, 1962 against FC Dundee two goals, but resigned from Cologne, as they had lost surprisingly high in the first leg with 1:8 goals in Dundee. In MesseCup the round 1963/64, he drove the quarter-finals to 4-0 victory at home to AS Roma three hits in. Dramatic climax were 1964/65 encounters in Landesmeistercup against Liverpool. Müller was a member of the Cologne team that was in Rotterdam in playoff against the English champions after the third draw (2-2 ) eliminated on March 24, 1965 lot from the competition. A total of 26 matches will be listed with thirteen gates for Müller from 1960/61 bis 1965/66 in European competitions.

Karlsruher SC, 1966-1970

The KSC had occupied in the 1965/66 season with the goal difference of 35:71 16th place and just achieved the league before Borussia Neunkirchen. Since the Baden scorer after 11 matchday of the prominent new additions Dragoslav Šekularac and the ex - Cologne - October 29, 1966 - 6:16 with points were on the bottom of the table, coach Werner Roth termination was for November 1, 1966 exceptionally and with the Frenchman Paul Frantz committed a new coach. The first sign of improvement came with the home draw on November 12 against 1 FC Cologne, as Christian Müller succeeded in the 87th minute of the equalizer. At the round end of the KSC reached with 31:37 points to the 13th place in the standings and had scored 54 goals. Müller contributed to 17 goals in 32 missions. Horst Wild and Hans Cieslarczyk shared with seven goals rank second in the internal KSC scoresheet. The 1st FC Cologne landed in the first year without Müller on the seventh rank and had scored 48 goals. In his second year Karlsruher Müller experienced with the Badeners relegation. Müller had in 30 games again able to achieve eight goals. A total of 131 games with 71 goals listed for the Forward from 1963 to 1968 in the Bundesliga.

The ex- Cologne played for Karlsruhe two rounds in the Football Regionalliga Süd. In 1969, he won with the KSC the championship, in 1970 he was runner-up. In 61 games he scored 41 goals and also met in the two promotion rounds in nine games four times into the opponent's net, although already clearly hobbled by a knee injury.

At 32, he returned to his home in Cologne, this time for SC Viktoria. Despite still -time operation, he was able to complete only two games for the Victoria in the Round 1970/71 and then had to finally end his playing career.

Christian Müller was appointed by Sepp Herberger several times to internationals in the squad of the German national football team, but never came out from behind the one-time all-powerful Uwe Seeler to international missions. On March 19, 1960, he played representative of West Germany in Frankfurt to southern Germany. The West team won with the strikers Helmut Rahn, Jürgen Schütz, Christian Müller, Alfred Schmidt and Albert Brülls the game 2-0 gates.

After playing career

He went to Rheidt at Fliesteden, where he went as a physical education teacher in the teaching profession and still besides four years worked as a trainer for SpVgg Oberaußem and the Pulheimer SC. Then the trained salesman made ​​independently and taking a more general insurance agency.

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